Search results for to01010http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/2099859Killing the catWinner of the Verity Bargate Award in 1990
Killing the Cat is a play about memory and writing. Moving between the 70s and the present day it shows Danny writing about his sister's experience of sexual abuse by his father. As he invents a fiction of what he has been told has happened, what he remembSpencer, David, 1958-engPaperbackBookLondon: Methuen Drama, 199019900413642100978041364210397804136421032099859http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/2145382JumpersRev. edThe Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard brilliantly parodies the philosophy lecture, the detectiStoppard, Tom.engPaperbackHardbackBookLondon: Faber, 198619860571145698057114610497805711456909780571146109978057114569097805711461092145382http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/579950Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme'This powerful and subtle play... follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World War. It reaches a climax at the start of the terrible battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, the actual anniversary of the battle of the Boyne McGuinness, Frank.engPaperbackBookLondon: Faber, 19861986057114611297805711461169780571146116579950http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/316684Plays: oneIn Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images and its plethora of ironic contradictions,Churchill, Caryl.engPaperbackBookLondon: Methuen, 19851985041356670697804135667069780413566706316684http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/212616Plays [of] Edward Bond. 1, Saved; [and], Early morning. [New ed.] [and], The Pope's wedding"Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties … the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today … Bond's plays cannot be ignored" (Independent)
Saved - "The most uncompromising, original and un-English English play of the sixties" (Observer); Early MoBond, Edward.engPaperbackBookLondon: Eyre Methuen, 19771977041345410X97804134541029780413454102212616http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/212532The cheviot, the stag and the black, black oilRev., illustrated edStrathoykel, Sutherland. "When the Sheriff and his men arrived, the women were on the road and the men behind the walls. The women shouted 'Better to die here than America or the Cape of Good Hope'. The first blow was struck by a woman with a stick. The gentry leant out of their saddles and beat at McGrath, John, 1935-2002engPaperbackBookLondon: Eyre Methuen, 19811981041348880297804134888009780413488800212532http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/212374Top girlsFully rev. edMarlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Churchill, Caryl.engPaperbackBookLondon: Methuen, 19841984041355480597804135548029780413554802212374http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/659636Plays: twoSoftcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness aChurchill, Caryl.engPaperbackBookLondon: Methuen Drama, 19901990041362270397804136227099780413622709659636http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/1834431Entertaining Mr. SloaneNew ed. / introduced by John LahrEntertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until the London production of Loot in 1966 - less than a year before Joe Orton's untimely death &#45Orton, Joe.engPaperbackBookLondon: Methuen, 1986, c1964196419860413413403978041341340697804134134061834431http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/items/471290The complete playsI suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It inOrton, Joe.engPaperbackBookLondon: Eyre Methuen, 19761976041334610297804133461009780413346100471290